Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-31
THE FOREIGN ANARCHISTS ATTEMPT
TO INTIMIDATE.

facts before them, and they were not by
any means all circumstantial. The Su-
preme Court of Illinois passed upon all
the exceptions taken by the condemned.
reviewed the law and the facts, found no
errors or abuses, and affirmed the iudg-
ments. The Supreme Court of the United
States, it is not likely, will order the case
up to 1t, as the points made to induce it
to do 50 were argued before the Supreme
Court OF the State and that the law was in
terpreted correctly is the judgment of the
best legal minds. Indeed, the counsel for
the condemned on Saturday admitted that
his Anarchist clients had, at the time of
the Haymarket murder, been supplying
themselves with dynamite bombs upon
the delusive theory that if they were so
armed and large body of working men
could be equipped likewise, the danger of a
conflict between the authorities and the
discontinued would be averted, the
knowledge of the arming serving to in
timidate the police and the military.
Captain Black hastens TO say, however,
that this was unquestionably a mistaken
view taken by his clients.
The day Of execution drawing near, we
are now treated to the strange spectacle of
European Communists, Socialists and An
arehlsts impertinently interfering, trying
the case anew according to their own Pc
culiar ideas, and sending threatening let
tiers to this country to induce timidity of
action on the part of the authorities. One
OF these letters has been received by the
President Of the United States from the
Council General Of the Social Democratic
Federation in Holland, duly certified by
the Secretary. This letter reviews what
the writers assume to be the facts; finds
that the Chicago criminals have been I'M
justly condemned, and notifies the Presi-
dent that if they are hanged, it, the Coun-
ell, will hold the President personally re-
sponsible for the murder" This is moth
ing more nor less than threat to assassin
ate President Cleveland.
We have no idea how important body
this Council General" is-it is enough
to know that it is meddling, impertinent
and criminal in threatening the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the Republic Whatever else it
may be, 1t is of foreign growth and habita-
ton, and exposes its gross ignorance when
1t speaks of the "ruling class" as party
to the murder if the Anarchists are exc
cuted. These fat-witted Dutch Socialists
need to be informed that there are no
ruling classes in this Republic that
every citizen here is sovereign by recog-
milton Of natural right that the people
rule here, and that we have moi, as in Enrope.
ruled and ruling class. 1t awakens
some little curiosity to know how it comes
about that these Dutch Socialists know so
much more about the facts in the case--as
they pretend-than The Courts and the
people of Chicago. 1t is pulling, also,
how the Holland protestants discovered
the astounding ''fact'-"that the throwing
OF the bomb in the Chicago Haymarket
was provoked by the outrageous assault of
the police upon the peoples right of free
speech"
1t Is strange that the American people
should be deemed so ignorant as to need
instruction from socialistic Hollanders
concerning the right of free speech, but it
is evident that the lowland Dutch do not
know what they are talking about. The
free speech of the Anarchists has not at
all been interfered with in America-and
that is precisely the trouble now. These
dynamite, mountaineering murderers have
made the privilege of free speech an
abuse, and because of that fact, the muir
der of innocent men at their hands re-
suited.
More amazing than this threatening
letter of the stupid Dutch Anarchists is
the action Of the extreme Left" of the
French Chamber. These men, who claim
to be sufficiently intelligent to legislate
for France, met unofficialIy on Saturday,
took the statements Of American Anarch-
lists for gospel truth, and passed reso-
luton protesting against the execution of
the Chicago assassins. In this remarkable
resolution these hot-blooded Reds, who
stand ready to-day to throw down the
pillars of the French Republic at the first
favorable opportunity, speak of the un-
wisdom of executing for political Of
lenses" Here, indeed, is amazing ignor-
ance. These French malcontents need to
learn that the men who are about to be
hanged in Chicago have not been tried for
and viii not be executed for political of
lenses. They have been tried and con-
demned under the ordinary laws against
murder, and precisely as ordinary muir.
derers are tried. 1t is humiliating to the
common intelligence Of men that the
members Of a section of legislative body
of 4 great European nation should expose
themselves as having so little knowledge
of the American Repu5lics as to state tina,
we try men and execute them for "politi-
cal offenses." Treason alone could be
placed in that category, but treason with
us consists only in leyying war against the
Government, and in adhering to and Civ
ing aid and comfort to its enemies.
Evidently the friends of the Chicago
condemned murderers are driven to cor.
ner and begin to see how desperate are the
prisoners cases. They now produce the
mother Of one of the escaped murderers, who
dramatically recites details to show that
her son threw the bomb. But even if this
is true, it cuts but small figure in the
tragedy, since the distinction between ac
complete and principal is now practically
obliterated.
The very latest effort to secure the re-
lease Of The prisoners was mass meeting
held on Saturday in New York, 10 which
some one Of the many lodges or sections O
the Knights of Labor loaned its name
where protests against the executions were
passed. We adopt out of hand the re
marks of the San Francisco Alta ur.on tina